What Is Affiliate Marketing & How To Start Affiliate Marketing In 2018

January 31, 2018

What is affiliate marketing and is it actually practical for you?

What is affiliate marketing, you ask? Affiliate marketing is actually a very simple concept. Don’t be fooled though just because it’s simple… Because while it may be simple, in my experience, affiliate marketing is the number one way that ordinary people like you and I can make a ridiculous amount of money on complete autopilot. Affiliate marketing is simply selling other people’s stuff and getting a commission.

In this situation, both sides win because Whoever’s things you’re selling is profiting, because they’re selling products and then you’re winning also because you’re making commissions. Honestly, the best part about affiliate marketing is the fact that it’s so simple and so practical for ordinary people. We don’t handle shipping, we don’t handle making products, we don’t handle any payments, we really don’t handle anything. All we take care of is the marketing, hence the name, affiliate marketing. So just to make it clear, affiliate marketing is selling other people’s things and getting a commission from that. After years of doing it, I’ve boiled it down to three simple steps.

Step one: Find a product.

Step two: Find the target audience for that product.

Step three: Put your product in front of your target audience.

Thats it!

Let’s take a look at an example together. So for step number one, we find a product. You can choose literally anything, it would be a good idea to choose something you’re personally interested in, or something that you use yourself. So, to do this, you have to join the affiliate program of a major retailer. So sites like Amazon, eBay, and thousands of others all have affiliate programs. So for our purposes, let’s say you want to use, for example…. Makeup. Let’s say you want to sell makeup to make money off of it. And let’s say you want to join Amazon’s affiliate program to do this. And sell the makeup on Amazon and get a commission. What you would do is, go to Amazon.com, you would scroll down, and you would find where it says, become an affiliate.

Most major retailers like eBay, Amazon, and others have it at the bottom. So you can just go to the bottom, and in little writing, it would tell you if they have an affiliate program or not. So after you go through the process and become an affiliate, you can go find the product you want to promote. You’ll be given a unique link for that product, that people can now click to and once they do and now they’re on Amazon.com through your link, Anything they will purchase, you would get a commission from. So now, for step number two, after we figured out that our product is make up, We figure out the target audience, and obviously our target audience is females. So now step number three, this is where the magic happens. Ok, now you have to put your link, your unique affiliate link, in front of your target audience.

Many affiliate marketers say the best way to go about this is to make a website and rank it on Google. So now every time someone Googles the specific makeup that you’re selling, Your site would appear near the top, Then, a percentage of whoever searches would click your link, go on your website, and click on your affiliate link and then purchase things, and that would make you commissions. While that does work, and obviously, people have found a lot of success with it, I found that to be pretty difficult, especially for beginners.

What I found to be way more simpler, and honestly, more efficient, is to use social media to promote my unique affiliate links. For example, Instagram. You’d be surprised at how well Instagram works to promote your affiliate link. Basically, my formula for success on Instagram is pretty simple. All I do is make a page related to the niche I’m in. So in our example of makeup, I’d make a page about makeup. Then, I’d post interesting content about makeup. Then, I’d interact with people who are interested in makeup. So I’d go like their stuff, comment on their posts, follow them, People that are interested in makeup, and how do I know that they’re interested in makeup? I know because I can go find the followers of a famous makeup page and then interact with them.

What’s beautiful is you can automate that whole process, so literally, you would have your page interacting with people while you’re chillin. And then, you have your unique affiliate link, in your Instagram bio. And then have some sort of catchy phrase to get people to click it. And what that will do is have people click your affiliate link even when you’re not doing anything. And that is powerful as hell! So that means you would set everything in your affiliate marketing business up once, and then relax while you are getting paid.

You would get residual commissions, month after month. So that three step formula is very easy to follow and literally anyone can do it. I’m not saying it’s easy. Nothing in life worth having is easy. But, I am saying it’s simple. It might require work, it might require a little bit of learning, but trust me, the results are more than worth it. One last thing that’s extremely important to know, is that you can get affiliate commissions for subscription based products. This means that you could get a sale, to a subscription based product meaning that it’s a product that requires a monthly payment and then you would get paid every single month from one affiliate marketing sale. The reason this is SO powerful, is because ONE sale could pay you multiple times. Because if you get someone subscribed to a program, and they subscribe for years, You would get paid every single month. So imagine doing that, getting multiple sales, to a subscription based product That means you would be getting a lot of money every single month and then once you do the work in the beginning, you really don’t need to do any work after unless you want to make even more money.

So my advice to you, if you’re serious, is to find a program or system that pays you monthly affiliate commissions There are plenty out there, I know of a few, you can go out there and do your own research and find a program or system that you can be an affiliate of and get paid monthly. But, if you want to use the system that I use to get my monthly commissions, then you can click right here. That being said, guys, if you have a dream, don’t wait… We have Google, we have YouTube, we live in the information age.

We can literally search up anything and get information about it But, most people today are using the internet to like, view twerk videos. Be better than that. Use it for your own good, use it for your future. I promise you can do you want with the right information, and the good news is, you have all the information in the world. Hopefully this has anwered your question of what is affiliate marketing. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to leave a comment, I answer all comments, as long as they’re appropriate. Until next time!.

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Bea Torres here. Stay at home wife and mom. I’ve been on the internet making money online for the past ten years. Would like to share with you my successes and failures in the hope that you will find success in creating an online business to work from home.

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